Lady Constantine

[selenak]

Today is my mother's birthday, which makes for brief time online, but I'm still in an eighteenth century mood. I'm also in a frustrated comics reader mood, as likeadeuce torments me with entries indicating that the new Astonishing X-Men is on sale and worth the wait. In the US. Which probably means I won't get it till the end of October. So, eighteenth

Comments

[londonkds]

I gathered that she wanted not to dream about certain incidents in her past ever again?

Not quite so happy about the sexual politics - as we said when you did your main post on the subject, there's a tendency to assume that it doesn't matter if Bad Girl heroines have to have sex with possibly-sadistic scumbags, because they're ho's anyway... I have a nasty feeling Joanna might fit into that subclass.

[selenak]

I didn't get the impression from Sandman. (In Lady Constantine, the question doesn't pose itself as she doesn't have the time to have sex with anyone but an old friend of hers while they're travelling, and it wouldn't help her with the bad guys, err, bad woman and minions, either.) She's presented as an edgy but sympathetic character, and we see Morpheus and later Orpheus treat her with respect; she's also the pov character.

The incident in her past would be what the story details, but the miniseries suggests she wants something more than not just dream about it anymore. It's certainly her equivalent to John Constantine's Newcastle incident, at the very least...

[londonkds]

There's no indication she's indiscriminate in Sandman, but she's the kind of character people tend to project things on.

Incidentally, I know you don't follow Who fandom much, but Torchwood episode one is probably to be broadcast on 21st October and there is a make Jack Harkness shag anyone you want crossover ficathon to celebrate.

[selenak]

You mean, talk about someone who's indiscriminate? *g* Thanks for the link, though as much as I like Captain Jack (and this reminds me, I need to find a Torchwood source!), I'm bizarrely uninterested in his sex life. Perhaps it's the lack of challenge?

[artaxastra]

Needless to say, I love her. And the Thermidor section was one of my favorites. To your gasping surprise, I'm sure. *G*

[selenak]

Absolutely.*g* So, if Johanna and Elza met, they'd

a) kill each other
b) hit it off and hit the town together
c) nod vaguely and never bother to find out who the other was?

[artaxastra]

Hit it off and hit the town together. They wouldn't agree on some things, but on a lot of other things they'd be peas in a pod. I keep coming back to the Mystique/Emma Frost analogy.

[likeadeuce]

Cool, thanks, I'll look for this one!

I was being very selfish with the "worth the wait" comment -- so sorry ;). This is me offering to send you the issue (I'm already planning to buy extra copies for reasons I shan't get into at the moment), though considering my luck with the mail, I have no idea if it would get there before you could get it yourself.

On the other hand, there might be scans up somewhere, or soon. I'll try to poke around and find out.

[selenak]

You're the very, very, very best. See today's post.